Drug, placebo gained approval for prescription use from the Food and D

[Guest guest]

This is too much.

Codex wants to prevent us from getting our vitamins without paying to see an

M.D. that hasfor year professed that all they did was make expensive urine

and now the drug manufacturres want ot make millions with fraudulent sugar

pills.

Well, look at it this way, at least they won't kill you like so many of the

other drugs they approve for human consumption.

 

 

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" califpacific " <califpacific

 

Thursday, February 03, 2005 2:47 AM

[sSRI-Research] placebo gained

approval for prescription use from the Food and D

 

 

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> SSRI-Research@

> Wed, 2 Feb 2005 19:50:27 -0500

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> [sSRI-Research] placebo gained approval for prescription use

> from the Food and Drug Administration Monday

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> After more than four decades of testing in tandem with other drugs,

> placebo gained approval for prescription use from the Food and Drug

> Administration Monday.

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> " For years, scientists have been aware of the effectiveness of placebo

> in treating a surprisingly wide range of conditions, " said Dr.

> Jonathan Bergen of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.

> " It was time to provide doctors with this often highly effective option. "

>

> Those two paragraphs are the opening of a satirical report fabricated

> by the staff of The Onion, a humorous " news " web site. (For the entire

> spoof, see the e-alert " Wonder Drug " 10/23/04.) The sly joke here, of

> course, is that placebos used in clinical trials are completely inert

> - just " sugar pills. "

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> Most people would never think to question the contents of a placebo.

> After all, everyone knows that placebos have no active ingredients.

> But if a placebo could talk, it would respond just like any con man

> caught with his hand in your pocket: " Who ME? Would I lie to you? "

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> Sugar coating

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> There was a time when doctors sometimes prescribed phony medication to

> their patients who they regarded as hypochondriacs. They called the

> pills " placebo " (a Latin word meaning " I shall please " ), and when the

> patients reported positive results the concept of the placebo effect

> was born.

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> These days, placebo pills are used in clinical trials to measure the

> true effect of a drug or supplement. They are thought to be made of

> inert substances designed to have no effect. But consider this:

> there's no such thing really as an inert substance.

>

> For instance, placebo pills are commonly called sugar pills. But is

> sugar inert? Far from it, of course. If you take a sugar pill, your

> body will have a reaction, especially if you happen to have an insulin

> disorder. But if you're given that same pill as part of a drug

> research trial, your reaction becomes a factor in the research.

>

> That may seem like nothing (what real difference could a tiny boost of

> sugar make?), but a little sugar is not the issue here. Far from it.

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> A little secret

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> When a pharmaceutical company tests a product in a placebo-controlled

> trial, where do you suppose they get placebo pills? Do they place an

> order with a placebo pill manufacturer? Or does Nestle's candy company

> run a side business that supplies researchers with sugar pills?